Chapter 648: Humans Are Still Fierce!
Mid-July. The battle for Orenburg has already been fought sporadically. Liu Xian also received a military intelligence report from the Central Asia Department of the Military Intelligence Bureau: The Central Asia Action Team has organized a total of 12 teams, which are under the banners of Kazakh, Dayuz, Xiaoyuz, Kirgiz, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Turkmen, Turkic, Eastern, Turkic, Turkic, and Turkic. Now you're ready!
Liu Xian immediately approved the plan.
When the Wehrmacht arrived in Orenburg, the Russians continued to pool troops into Orenburg, and now there are 80,000 or 90,000 Russian troops in the entire Orenburg region. Together with the militia organized by the local government, the total strength is no less than 100,000.
The Office for Europe also reported that a large number of elite Russian troops were turning eastward from the Western European part of Russia. Over the years, they have also bought a lot of European men, although their status is relatively low-level, but it is still possible to detect the completely unblockable news of the 'army transfer'.
At this point, Liu Xian has no intention of taking the initiative to negotiate with the Russians. At the same time, he also deeply sighed for the gray cattle of Russia, how docile and coarse he must be, so that after losing more than 500,000 comrades' troops, he still came to the front line to fight. The place where the Sino-Russian war was fought was still a corner of the two countries, not the real essence of the heart. The Russians can fight to this point, and it is no wonder that World War II in the original time and space was beaten so hard by the Germans at the beginning, but they were still able to breathe a sigh of relief.
This group of old hairy people is really durable. A nation worthy of fighting!
This kind of thing should be put in China now. Half a million? Joke. With a loss of 180,000, the government and the opposition will all surrender. Therefore, the Chinese people also have to practice. until the nerves are thick, and you can withstand 100,000 casualties without changing your face. At that time, Liu Xian had the courage to fight against the whole world.
The railway track from the Aral Sea to Orenburg runs north-west-southeast, near the back of Orenburg. Lakes along the way are one after the other. The Cossack cavalry, relying on their geographical knowledge, repeatedly attacked the Wehrmacht's road guards and sabotaged the railways. The battle was delayed from late June to late July, and the main forces on both sides were considered to have taken over.
The regular army and militia of the Russian army are added to 100,000, while the Wehrmacht has a small 80,000. After the Battle of the Aral Sea, Leshan's Xinjiang Independent Brigade and three battalions of the Banner Army came to the front of the army, not counting the artillery, engineering and logistics departments, a total of six field brigades, and the corresponding garrison troops. It was organized into a border detachment by Liu Xian, and it was led by Le Shan.
The first battle of the collision of the main forces of China and Russia was started by them.
The Anxi frontier detachment, as a road escort unit, had the most confrontations with the Russian army, and after arriving in Orenburg, they were arranged to a forward protruding position. Before the position was completely repaired, it was flanked by two Russian divisions. Leshan reacted quickly, ordering the recruits of the two bannermen battalions to resist the attack of the Russian army separately, and then concentrate the old troops of the original independent brigade and storm the junction of the two Russian divisions. Like a knife, the attacking unit of the Russian army was divided in half.
The main forces in the rear immediately pounced, attacking in two directions, like the two big crabs, and pinched the two divisions of the Russian army to the death. And what about the main forces of the Russian army. also pounced on the old unit of the independent brigade like a hungry wolf. This battle was extremely bloody!
The border detachment of seven or eight thousand people carried a onslaught of at least fifty thousand people.
The positions were all very simple trenches, because the entire position only had three hours to build, and they were completely extended from individual bunkers. And anti-artillery holes, traffic trenches, underground bunkers and so on. Nothing.
The Russian army came quickly and charged towards the position like a madman at the beginning. They do not penetrate the lines of the Separate Brigade. The attacking troops of the two divisions were afraid that they would be eaten by the Wehrmacht. And the border detachments are desperately resisting. If these two Russian divisions can be completely annihilated in this battle, the hats on the heads of all the soldiers participating in the battle will be able to change color.
After the Battle of Tacheng. At least 100 or more middle- and lower-ranking officers in the independent brigade were transferred to military academies for training. When they come out of the military academy, they will no longer have to be dragged down by their original identity. Four or five hundred soldiers have been transferred to other units, so they will no longer have to be bound by their original identities. At the same time, more soldiers in the independent brigade have also had their files changed, and I don't know how many people cried out of breath at night for those simple strokes.
And now, such an opportunity is at hand. Why did the two bannermen battalion new army dare not hesitate to take one battalion and one division? Isn't that what that's all about? As long as the hat on the head of the family is removed, he is really willing to die.
In the first hour of the battle, the Anxi frontier detachment suffered 1,000 casualties, including one captain, one deputy captain, and seven officers of the colonel-level rank. But the most brutal stage is not yet in the first hour. Rather, it happened in the third hour of the battle. At that time, the Russian army had launched four attacks, and the positions of the border detachment were broken twice, among which the third battalion, a brigade and a squadron guarding a position, could not be withdrawn and were drowned in the torrent of the Russian army's attack, and all 100 officers and men of the unit were killed in battle, and none of them survived.
In the first hour, half of the ammunition reserves of his artillery were removed, and by the third hour, when the fiercest battle began, the artillery had only a few dozen shells left. The mortar and rocket artillery of the detachment also fell silent because of the running out of ammunition, one-third of the heavy machine guns stopped firing because of the ammunition, and short and bloody hand-to-hand combat took place in many sections.
After the war, the war correspondent of the "Huaxia Daily" walked around the battlefield and then sent an article to Beijing, which read: "It is hard to imagine that so many corpses could have gathered in such a small area. Stacked on top of each other, filling in the trenches. Blood stained the ground beneath your feet into black-purple mud, and everywhere you could see severed limbs and shredded flesh torn by explosions and bayonets. Ten times bloodier than a slaughterhouse.
Such a sight makes people vomit.
I am not afraid to see the corpses of the Russians, but I am afraid to see the corpses of the fighters of the Ansi border detachment. That night I returned to my lodgings, and I could not sleep all night, until as soon as I closed my eyes, a picture of the remains of our soldiers appeared before me.
Anxi Frontier Detachment, formerly known as the Xinjiang Independent Brigade. I think all the people of the country know where the soldiers of this army come from. But I don't think anyone will ever see them as our enemies anymore after this battle. In the future, they will be Manchus, Mongols, and Han Chinese, and will no longer be banner people and traitors.
The Ansi frontier detachment paid seven thousand casualties for the battle, of which more than three thousand were killed. More than 400 officers above the rank of second lieutenant were sacrificed, and the detachment leader was below Major General Leshan, and 75% of all officers were killed or wounded.
That's the 14-hour battle in Akbulak!
Except for Liu Xian, no one knew that the Russian army had paid even heavier losses for this battle. At the same time as the two divisions were annihilated, in order to break through the defensive positions of the border detachment, the casualties of the Russian army were as high as 15,000 people.
If it weren't for the sharp artillery fire of the Russian army, which suppressed the firepower of the border detachment, this number would have increased a lot.
So much so that after this battle, the originally menacing Orenburg Russian army suddenly lost its spirit. The loss of nearly 40,000 men before and after was borne by Orenburg, which had only 100,000 troops. Dusselodov, the governor of the steppe governorate of Russia, regretted that his heart was dripping with blood.
Although in order to completely annihilate the two Russian divisions as soon as possible, the Wehrmacht also paid a certain number of casualties, plus the losses of the border detachment, the total casualties also reached 12,300 people, but compared with the Russian army, it was much worse.
And the loss of 26,700 men erased the original gap between the Chinese and Russian armies at once. Now Liu Xian has more troops on hand than the Orenburg defenders.
Half a month later, the photos of the battle of Akbulak were first published on the front page of the "Huaxia Daily", and in this piece of the newspaper were also published in the newspaper were a row of corpses of Russian troops with no end in sight, as well as a phalanx of camps assembled and running drills every morning. Each phalanx represented 1,000, 3,000, or 5,000 prisoners of war who were undergoing re-education through labor.
At the same time, the number of prisoners of war announced by the Wehrmacht has increased by more than 10,000.
The Huaxia Daily released the photos for three days in a row, and in those three days, the Huaxia Daily's thickness increased by a third. And "Huaxia Daily" has already been published, will "Ta Kung Pao" be far away?
When these photos are known to everyone throughout China, will they be far away when they land in the South Seas, Japan, Indochina Peninsula, Europe and the United States?
When these photographs came to Russia in late autumn, Alexander III, who had just received the news of the defeat at Orenburg, another defeat at the Battle of Orsko, was simply going crazy.
By now, Russia's losses have exceeded the Crimean War by at least five times. These defeats and losses were manifested not only in battles, but also in terms of economy and reputation.
St. Peter's Basilica raised the bells of dusk, and Alexander III spent half a month in silence and solemn church chants. The total number of losses had reached 700,000 men, and Napoleon had not inflicted such great damage on Russia, and more importantly, Liu Siam had finally frightened Alexander III and his army and civilian officials.
With the speed at which the Russians were deploying their troops, it would be difficult for them to gather an army of more than 100,000 men in the latest city that was blocking the Chinese emperor's advance, unless they gave up land en masse.
This was true of the Battle of Orenburg, as was the Battle of Orsko. The Russian army of the latter was only 80,000 people. In the Chinese army, the troops used in the front line are constantly fighting, and the army under the Chinese emperor has exceeded 100,000. Although, according to British intelligence, many of these additional troops were remnants of the Manchus.
Alexander III was excited when he first heard the news, but after the Battle of Orenburg and the Battle of Orsko, he no longer had the slightest affection for these troops. This is a group of even more desperate and murderous teams than the previous Wehrmacht.
Humanity has been freed from barbarism and ignorance, but humanity is still brutal! (To be continued......)